Protistology 13 (3), 95–125 (2019) |
Bloom-forming potentially toxic dinoflagellates Prorocentrum cordatum in marine plankton food webs |
Antonina N. Khanaychenko1, Irena V. Telesh2,3 and Sergei O. Skarlato3
1 A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russia
| Submitted October 12, 2019 | Accepted November 9, 2019 | Summary The article reviews the up-to-date concepts of an ambiguous status of the widely spread, bloom-forming, potentially toxic mixotrophic dinoflagellates Prorocentrum cordatum in marine planktonic food webs, with special emphasis on the ecological prerequisites of its proliferation and possible scenarios underlying the development of harmful algal blooms and their top-down control in marine coastal waters.
Key words: Baltic Sea, Black Sea, copepods, dinoflagellates, grazing, growth rate, harmful blooms, invasive species, mixotrophy,
Prorocentrum cordatum, toxicity, trophic network
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